The Truth About Guns
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Quote of the Day: I Sure Hope So Edition
“Whatever new handgun the Army adopts to replace the M9, it will fire a more powerful cartridge than the Beretta’s 9mm. This could be the .45-caliber ammo currently used by the Marines or, according to an Army spokesperson, it could be the .357 ... Read More
Deputies, Police Reserves and the Militia
There were no police at the time the Constitution was written and the Bill of Rights ratified. Police as we know them didn’t come into being until a couple of decades later, in England. There, giving the police power was ... Read More
Ruger Announces the New Striker-Fired LC9s
From Ruger: The all new, striker-fired Ruger® LC9s™ features a short, light, crisp trigger pull for faster shooting and improved accuracy. The LC9s™ provides slim, lightweight and compact personal protection with a blued, alloy steel slide, a high-performance, glass-filled nylon ... Read More
Smith & Wesson Settles Foreign Bribery Charges for $2M
“Firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson has agreed to pay $2 million to settle U.S. government charges over bribes the company allegedly paid out to foreign officials between 2007 and 2010.” So reports fortune.com. The payment stems from accusations that Smith reps bribed ... Read More
It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Everytown for Gun Safety Illustrates the Need for Armed Self Defense Edition
Sure, we’ve had our differences with Shannon Watts and her now-Bloomberg-owned Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America civilian disarmament org. Not to mention the euphemistically named Everytown for Gun Safety. But let no one say we don’t give ... Read More
Shooting Illustrated on Their Remington R51 Review: Oops
Shooting Illustrated had been pimping the Remington R51 hard. They put it on their cover, they gave it a glowing review, and even after a plethora of negative reviews of the firearm started coming out they issued a full-throated defense ... Read More
BREAKING: Judge Frederick Scullin Issues 90-Day Stay in DC Carry Decision
“A federal judge on Tuesday granted a 90-day stay in a ruling that upended the District’s ban on carrying handguns in public. The order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Scullin brings a temporary reprieve to D.C. officials, who ... Read More
Miles of Aisles: TTAG Tours Smith & Wesson
I had the chance to visit the heart of gun valley for the first time last week. I was in Springfield, Massachusetts with a clowder of other gun guys courtesy of Smith & Wesson. The real reason for the ... Read More
Gear Review: ShootingSight Tavor Trigger Unit
At the time of this writing, I know of three companies working on replacement trigger packs for the IWI Tavor SAR: Timney, Geissele, and ShootingSight. If you haven’t heard of ShootingSight don’t feel bad; they’re a small “mom & pop” ... Read More
Alan Gura on a Palmer v. D.C. Stay
There have been rumors flying about the intertubes claiming that Alan Gura has agreed not to oppose a stay on the Palmer v. D.C. decision striking down the capital’s carry ban. These stories were fueled in part by the wording in ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Inconvenient Truth Edition
“One of the important lessons I learned as a participant in the southern freedom movement of the 1960s shocks many of my liberal friends: Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. I am neither a member nor supporter of the NRA, ... Read More
From the Annals of Police Militarization: Vets Heart MRAPs
“I’ve driven them quite a bit,” Pocatello, ID PD Officer Nick Edwards tells idahostatejournal.com re: the department’s new MRAP. “We had quite a few of them assigned to us in Iraq.” That’s not the money shot for reason.com. Writer Zenon Evans’ attention is ... Read More
Is This the First Photo of Legal D.C. Open Carry in 70 Years?
It wasn’t until 1932 that a permit was required to carry a concealed weapon in the District of Columbia. It was legal to carry pistols openly until 1943. At the time, it was clear that the prohibition didn’t apply to long ... Read More
It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Cane Corsos Edition
“Craig Sytsma left work Wednesday evening and went for a run along the shoulder of a rural road in Metamora Township in Lapeer County [MI],” freep.com reports. “A man mowing his lawn waved at Sytsma, a 46-year-old Livonia man, who ... Read More
Apparently Blotie Didn’t See ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
“A 50-year-old Queens man was quarreling with a 32-year-old friend known as ‘Blotie’ inside of his apartment in the Woodside Houses on Broadway around 11 p.m. Friday,” nydailynews.com reports. “The argument spilled into the hallway when where the younger man ... Read More
Inside the Twisted Mind of A Gun Control Advocate: William Wesling Nagel Edition
wikipedia.org defines an idée fixe as “a preoccupation of mind held so firmly as to resist any attempt to modify it.” That’s as good a description of the civilian disarmament mindset as you’re gonna get. For an example, check out the comment made ... Read More
OMG! An Open Carrier Walks with Walker! OMG!
“What was supposed to be a gentle promotional stroll along the Sheboygan lakefront Friday morning by the state’s first lady, became a bit more concerning to those attending when a local gun-rights advocate showed up with a semi-automatic rifle strapped ... Read More
Question of the Day: In Whose Direction Would You Point This Gun?
You don’t have to know much about history to be aware of the centuries-old enmity that exists between the U.K. and their neighbors across the channel. Which explains why even now, in the 21st century after all the wars and ... Read More
Gear Review: Strike Industries Ambush Sling Loop
It isn’t often that I find a new part or gizmo and say, “Huh! I guess I needed this more than I thought!” As I’ve been practicing my running, gunning, and slung up shooting in anticipation for a seven-mile biathlon ... Read More
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: Pregnant Woman Edition
Deputies: Pregnant Woman Killed While Admiring Gun Collection the miami.cbslocal.com headline proclaims. Of course, that not the kind of passively constructed story that we’re used to hereabouts. The header clearly suggests that there’s a killer to be named later. Yup, ... Read More